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Today so far 2026-09-24 · 06:00 UTC

A measles outbreak in Amish communities has prompted public health nurses to conduct door-to-door vaccination efforts to contain the deadly disease's spread. In a significant development for artificial intelligence applications in science, Anthropic reports that Claude discovered a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats in DNA analysis, though the full implications of the finding remain unclear. Meanwhile, ArXiv has secured multiyear funding commitments to maintain its role as an independent nonprofit preprint repository supporting the scientific community.

Scientists Crammed a Computer Into a Robot the Size of a Grain of Salt

Researchers built autonomous robots the size of salt grains—with onboard computers, sensors, and motors that think and swim independently for months.

2026-01-08 · 20:44 UTC
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Analyst Hints at Shadow Quantum Race Between China and US

2026-01-06 · 09:30

Capriole Investments founder Charles Edwards suggested that the U.S.

Novo Nordisk Launches $149 Wegovy Pill, Expanding Access to GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs

2026-01-05 · 20:43

The once-daily Wegovy pill became the first oral GLP-1 approved for weight loss in the U.S., offering an alternative to…

Emerge's 2025 Project of the Year: The Deep-Sea Machine That Caught an Ultra High-Energy Ghost

2025-12-26 · 16:01

Beneath the Mediterranean, physicists at the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope Initiative built a cathedral of glass…

The Fountain of Youth for Your Brain Might Be a Strategy Video Game

2025-12-22 · 20:01

New research suggests complex cognitive challenges, from StarCraft II to musical training, can slow neural aging by…

Study Maps Data Centers in Hot Climates Across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East

2025-12-20 · 19:30

A new global analysis finds that hundreds of the world’s data centers are operating in climates that are too hot for…

AI Helped Researchers Block a Virus Before Infection Began

2025-12-15 · 22:52

Washington State University researchers are using AI and simulations to pinpoint a single molecular interaction that…

Transhumanism Branded a 'Death Cult' as Thinkers Clash Over Humanity's Future

2025-12-14 · 17:59

A public debate exposed deep divides over whether using technology to defeat aging and death would save humanity or…

NASA Insists Interstellar Visitor Is ‘Just a Comet’ as Public Speculation Lingers

2025-11-20 · 01:30

Agency officials said data showed nothing unusual about Comet 3I Atlas despite weeks of speculation.

Blue Origin Marks First Ocean Landing of New Glenn Booster After Second Attempt

2025-11-14 · 00:48

Blue Origin has landed its New Glenn booster at sea after launching NASA’s ESCAPADE Mars mission.

Man Clones Best Friend: Tom Brady’s New Pup Is a Copy of the Original

2025-11-07 · 01:05

Colossal Bioscience has cloned former NFL star Tom Brady's dog, drawing the ire from some who are calling for a…

Why the 'Atomic Blue Dogs' of Chernobyl Are Good for Science

2025-10-28 · 18:56

A genetic study of canines living in Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone separates myth from a potential breakthrough in…

Stanford’s Light-Powered Eye Chip Brings Sight Back to the Blind

2025-10-23 · 00:43

In a medical first, Stanford scientists have restored functional vision to patients with advanced macular degeneration…

Google’s AI Cracks a New Cancer Code

2025-10-15 · 20:36

DeepMind’s 27-billion-parameter “Cell2Sentence-Scale” model spotted a drug combination that made tumors more visible to…

Satellites are leaking your data worse than coffee shop WiFi: Researchers

2025-10-14 · 06:00

Researchers were able to read text messages and even traffic for military systems and infrastructure with just a few…

When Robots Look Human, People Feel Safer—Until They Don't

2025-10-12 · 20:01

Researchers found that the closer robots get to looking human, the less people want them to.

Scientists Who Brought Quantum Weirdness to the Real World Win Nobel Prize in Physics

2025-10-07 · 16:58

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics honors a trio whose 1980s experiments made quantum circuits—and today’s quantum…

Researchers Build Microscopic Gears Powered by Light in Milestone for Nano-Scale Machines

2025-09-28 · 21:01

Breakthrough “metamachines” show how beams of light can drive gears and levers smaller than a grain of dust—opening…

Caltech Builds World’s Largest Neutral-Atom Quantum Computer

2025-09-28 · 18:01

Researchers kept more than 6,000 qubits coherent while operating with 99.98% accuracy.

AI Has Designed Living Genomes—And They Worked in the Lab

2025-09-26 · 18:01

In a landmark experiment, Stanford and Arc Institute scientists used “genome language models” to write and build 16 new…

New AI System Predicts Risk of 1,000 Diseases Years in Advance

2025-09-22 · 23:20

Delphi-2M reads your medical history like a language model reads text—and forecasts health problems 20 years out with…

A Google AI solves a famously impossible mathematical problem

2025-09-20 · 07:44

When equations shipwreck, a Google AI comes to the rescue.

Google DeepMind AI Cracks Century-Old Fluid Mysteries, Pointing to New Era in Science

2025-09-19 · 18:38

Google's DeepMind uncovered surprising solutions to the equations governing fluid dynamics, potentially accelerating…

Harvard's New AI Tool Could Pinpoint Treatments for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's

2025-09-09 · 18:45

Harvard's PDGrapher tool forecasts gene-drug pairings that restore diseased cells, marking a breakthrough in precision…

Heatwaves Age Your Body Like Smoking or Drinking, 15-Year Study Finds

2025-08-27 · 22:48

Research tracking 25,000 people reveals that repeated exposure to extreme heat accelerates biological aging, with manual…

AI Just Helped Make Old Cells Young Again

2025-08-22 · 19:46

OpenAI and Retro Biosciences used a custom AI model to redesign stem cell proteins, boosting efficiency and hinting at…

Arthur Hayes shifts focus to longevity after Trump pardon, invests in stem cell venture

2025-08-21 · 08:45

Arthur Hayes, freshly pardoned by US President Donald Trump, has taken a board seat and major stake in a stem cell…

Justin Sun Makes History as Youngest Chinese Commercial Astronaut With Blue Origin’s NS-34 Spaceflight

2025-08-03 · 18:15

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Justin Sun to Become Youngest Chinese Commercial Astronaut With Blue Origin’s New Shepard

2025-07-22 · 17:00

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